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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Paul use to depict the walk home in the beginning of Part 2?

2. What does Paul contemplate about the following morning in Part 2?

3. As Paul arrives at his house in Part 2, what does he feel about the one thing he had looked forward to?

4. What leans over the garden walls on Paul's walk home?

5. What was Paul doing when his secret appeared for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is the snow when Paul first sees it during the examination?

2. Who is Deirdre, and what does she illustrate for Paul?

3. What is the last thing that Paul sees and hears before the story ends?

4. How does Paul feel about his parents in Part 1 in relation to his secret?

5. How does the doctor attempt to earn Paul's trust and cooperation?

6. What is becoming more difficult for Paul to do, as he describes in Part 2?

7. What does the doctor have Paul do to test his eyes, and what is the result?

8. How does the snow take over Paul's room, according to the author's description?

9. What are two examples of how Paul views the outside world on his walk home from school?

10. How does Paul's street appear, according to his description in Part 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Paul is the main character, but the snow in his mind takes over and moves to the forefront.

1) Explain five reasons why Paul is the central character in the story, using all four parts as a reference.

2) Explain five reasons why the snow is the central character in the story, using all four parts as a reference.

3) Which character do you think is the central focus of the story? Why?

Essay Topic 2

What is the snow's role in Paul's examination, and how does it appear different than it did earlier? What does the snow do for the first time in Part 3, and how does that display a severe problem for Paul? What effect does the snow have on Paul while he is being questioned, and what are the orders it gives him? What do they reveal?

Essay Topic 3

Describe how Paul's mood and mannerisms change during his examination. What are the events that cause him to change so dramatically? How do his responses contribute to his change? Explain in detail the way Paul feels as the questions become more and more insistent and how he is processing them.

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